UK hotel and leisure group Whitbread is "still interested" in acquiring rival budget chain Travelodge
24 Jun 2010 at 12:01 — Stanley Slaughter
Project to cost £115 million
07 Jan 2010 at 14:56 — Martin Ferguson
News in brief from Travelodge, GTA, Louvre Hotels, Berlin Airport, Fraport and Star Alliance.
14 May 2009 at 18:03 — Stanley Slaughter
iBooker service allows mobile booking
25 Mar 2009 at 12:40 — Andrew Gough
Hotel chain offered sites earmarked for housing
28 Jan 2009 at 11:51 — Mark Caswell
This week's ABTN news in brief
17 Nov 2008 at 17:47 —
Budget hotel company Travelodge has announced its acquisition of seven new hotels for a combined investment of £69.9m ($137m)
24 Jun 2008 at 11:32 —
A UK survey of 500 PAs reveals 59% of bosses are rapidly taking steps to reduce their businesses” central costs as the credit crunch begins to bite.
Commissioned by hotel chain Travelodge, the feedback is that business travel is the first major policy to be reviewed - with two thirds of companies introducing ”budget only” travel. Flights and rail travel (45%) were most scrutinised, closely followed by personal expenses (39%) and hotel costs (37%).
27 May 2008 at 14:37 —
Travelodge has finalised a deal to buy six hotels from the Menzies Group in conjunction with R20 Ltd for £85m ($170m)
21 Apr 2008 at 16:42 —
BA sacks two after T5 fiasco
BA has sacked two senior executives after the opening of its flagship Terminal Five at Heathrow turned into a shambles.Gareth Kirkwood, director of operations, and David Noyes, director for customer services, were both appointed to their positions when Willie Walsh took over as ceo two years ago.They were members of the airline's management team and had both worked for BA for more than 20 years.
BA said it now planned to appoint a chief operations director who would carry out both roles.
16 Apr 2008 at 19:49 — Stanley Slaughter
